Metro news – Page 237
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Moscow sets out metro development plan
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro General Manager Dmitry Gaev has revealed plans for further expansion of the network over the period from 2010 to 2015. Gaev hopes to see a further 130 km built by 2015, of which 60 km is already included in the city's budget. Funding for the remainder will ...
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Frankfurt LRV handed over
GERMANY: Frankfurt Transport Authority VGF has taken delivery of the first of 146 Flexity Swift light rail vehicles which are being built by Bombardier. A further 11 will be supplied from the Bautzen factory this year, with deliveries continuing until autumn 2015. The bi-directional vehicles have been custom ...
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First section of Delhi metro Phase 2 opens
INDIA: The first extension built under Delhi Metro Rail Corp's Phase 2 expansion programme was inaugurated on June 3, and began carrying passengers the following day. The 3·1 km elevated extension eastwards from Shahdara to Dilshad Garden brings the length of Line 1 to 25·1 km with 21 stations. ...
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Mexico's Tren Suburbano inaugurated
MEXICO The first section of a planned suburban rail network in the capital was officially inaugurated on June 2.
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Riga buys Skoda trams
LATVIA: Riga urban transport authority SIA Rigas Satiksme has awarded a €51·7m contract to Skoda Transportation for the supply of 20 low-floor trams. The contract was formally signed on May 23, following an international tender launched in December 2007. The 1 524 mm gauge trams will be based on Skoda's ...
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Santiago metro orders extra trains
CHILE: Metro de Santiago has exercised an option for a further 36 cars to operate its steel-wheeled Lines 4 and 4A in the Chilean capital.
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Washington's rubbish idea
DEBRIS: Collectors have been installed to keep the rails at two stations on Washington's Red Line free from litter and newspapers. Air flow from train movements blows the discarded papers into the collectors, from where staff can remove rubbish before it is blown into the tunnels. 'These debris collectors will ...
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Improved information in Delhi
INDIA: Passenger information systems supplied by Thales have gone live at three stations under the second phase of the Delhi Metro, and a further 71 stations are to be equipped by the time the city hosts the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Thales is responsible for the supply and installation of public ...
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NewsEspoo votes for Länsimetro
FINLAND: The last hurdle to the planned westward expansion of the Helsinki metro was overcome on May 19, when the council in the neighbouring city of Espoo voted 56-9 in favour of financing its part of the €714m Länsimetro project. Helsinki is contributing €144m for the two-station section within ...
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NewsKuwait finalising ambitious metro plans
KUWAIT: Tenders for the construction of a 165 km metro network are to be called in July, Dr Hussain Al-Sayegh, Chief Consultant at the Kuwait Overland Transport Union, told the Rail Infrastructure MENA conference in Dubai. The government will finalise its specification for the proposed four-line metro network in ...
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NewsEdinburgh tram contracts awarded
UK: City of Edinburgh council and tram project promoter Transport Initiatives Edinburgh announced on May 14 that contracts worth £512m had been placed for the 18·5 km tram network being developed in the Scottish capital. The BBS consortium of Bilfinger Berger and Siemens has a €350m fixed-price construction contract, under ...
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NewsSiemens announces biggest US light rail order
USA: Utah Transit Authority gave Siemens notice to proceed with the production of 77 Avanto S70 light rail vehicles for Salt Lake City on May 15. The $277m order is the fourth UTA has placed with Siemens, and the manufacturer's largest US light rail contract. The cars are needed ...
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Granada light metro progress
SPAIN: The Andalucía regional government has awarded a joint venture of Ferrovial and Ucop a €62·8m contract to build the 3·5 km Río Genil - Campus de la Salud section of the Granada light metro. Due to take 30 months to complete, this section runs underground for 30% of its ...
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U-Bahn to the football
AUSTRIA: A 4 km extension of Wien metro line U2 from Schottenring to Praterstern, Messegelände and the Ernst-Happel stadium was opened in May 10, a month before the city hosts the first match of the 2008 UEFA European football championship. The extension more than doubles the 3·5 km ...
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Brazilian upgrade funds
BRAZIL: BNDES has approved loans totalling R$177m for metro upgrades and construction in Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, state capital of Ceará. A loan of R$142m is destined to assist the ongoing project in Fortaleza, where a cross-city tunnel is being built to provide through running onto two converted suburban ...
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Pyongyang buys Czech trams
NORTH KOREA: Pyongyang Transport Authority is to buy 20 second-hand Type T3 CKD-built single-ended trams from Praha transport authority DPHMP in a contract worth KC13m. Pyongyang already operates 129 Type T6B5K single-ended trams delivered in 1991 and 45 Type KT8D5K bi-directional articulated trams supplied in 1990. A further 50 ...
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City operators to merge
ITALY: Milano's ATM and GTT of Torino have announced plans to merge. The intention is to create a public transport operating business better placed to compete on the international stage with British and French rivals. The group would become Europe's ninth largest transport undertaking by revenue, but Elio Catania, President ...
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Škoda plans next Praha tram
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Transportation has unveiled proposals to develop a fully low-floor, three-section tram for use in Praha. Designated 15T and branded ForCity, the unidirectional cars are destined to form a key element in the renewal of the Czech capital's tram fleet. Around 250 vehicles are to be delivered to ...
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Praha opens metro extension
CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha transport authority DPHMP was due to inaugurate a 4·6 km underground extension of metro Line C from Ládví eastwards to the northern suburb of Letnany on May 9. The extension serves stations at Strízkov, Prosek and Letnany, where a bus interchange and park and ride facility ...
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Urban rail news in brief - May 2008
FGV has ordered a further 14 bi-directional 100% low-floor Flexity Outlook trams which Bombardier will deliver to Valencia and Alacant in 2009-10. On April 10 preferred bidder Serco announced that it had signed a contract with the Roads & Transport Authority covering the operation and maintenance of the Dubai Metro ...